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Every time I posted on SO(or other SE sites) I always have to clarify my question with something like "I know it's probably not good idea to do A, and I underst
by raincole 3y ago
Every time I posted on SO(or other SE sites) I always have to clarify my question with something like "I know it's probably not good idea to do A, and I understand B could be a better solution, but in my specific situation I really want to do A."
Then people will still try to close my question because it's a duplicate of B.
- sixothree 3y agoI've literally included the search terms I used to ensure it wasn't a duplicate. Other times ice explained why this is clearly not a duplicate . Nope. Closed for being a duplicate.
- lopis 3y agoSometimes it can be as simple as "version 2 of this software does things this way, but I'm using version 14, how can I do this?". "Closed as duplicate: [question from 12 years ago]".
- pasc1878 3y agoI now only use a smaller sites and you just mark these to be reopened. The issue is that all users are moderators and the newcomers are the ones not reading questions etc. I would flag this sort of thing for a real moderator.
- bunga-bunga 3y agoPeople just skip that part. The flow is: read title, skim code example, post answer. Then you point out that they completely disregarded what you wrote and blame you for misdirecting them. Then you get the downvotes. The SO way.
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